Nikolay Antoshkin

Nikolay Antoshkin (19 December 1942-) was a Soviet and Russian air force Colonel-General and United Russia politician.

Biography
Nikolay Antoshkin was born in Kuzminovka, Bashkir ASSR, Soviet Union in 1942, and he entered the Soviet Army in 1961. He later rose in the ranks of the Soviet Air Force, becoming a colonel in 1979, Major-General in 1985, and Lieutenant-General in 1990,  and he was awarded the "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal in 1986 for assisting in the relief efforts in Chernobyl. In 1994, he became a Colonel-General in the Russian Air Force. In 2014, Antoshkin was elected to the State Duma as a member of the United Russia list.